Acupuncture meets antibiotics: Mercy Hospital supplements traditional care with holistic treatments

Two years ago, Ivan Toirac was admitted to Mercy Hospital in a coma following a drug overdose.

"All the doctors told us he was going to die, or was going to be like a vegetable for the rest of his life," recalled his father, Arturo Toirac.

Then Patty Hutchison began working with the hospital's doctors. Founder of Mercy's holistic care program, she began acupuncture therapy on him.

"The first thing that happened was his kidneys, which were totally closed according to the doctors, opened up," Arturo says. "My son is alive, talking to us ...